BOTANY WITH BASICS OF HYDROBOTANY (AQUATIC PLANTS OF UKRAINE) - B.Ye. Yakubenko - 2011

IX. VETERAN SPORE PLANTS

Family Cinclidotaceae

The family includes a single genus and about 10 species.

Cinclidotus fontinaloides features a slender, fasciculately branched stem, 3-10 cm long. Leaves are lanceolate, entire, with a costa. Sporophytes are located on lateral branches. The capsule is oblong-ovoid, brown, fully or, less commonly, partially immersed in the perichaetial leaves. Spores mature in summer. They grow on rocks and wood in mountain streams.

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